An Iowa woman already sentenced to 25 year for intentionally running over a 14-year-old Latina girl and a 12-year-old Black boy with her SUV was sentenced Thursday to the same amount on federal hate crimes charges stemming from the incidents. Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, was given two concurrent 25 year sentences in May after pleading …
Twin 5-year-old girls were shot this week in Tucson, Arizona, during a road rage incident. One of the girls was hospitalized with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, and the other was treated at the scene. Tucson police said that the suspect nearly collided with a vehicle driven by the twins’ father Tuesday afternoon, KVOA reported, and …
Investigators say 18-year-old Shmuel Silverberg’s death was part of a violent spree of random crimes and not bias-related.
Colorado Springs Police asked for help on Wednesday with an investigation of a kidnapping of a woman that took place Sunday evening. KRDO said the incident happened at the Rodeway Inn on Ore Mill Road, near Interstate 24 on the city’s west side. The victim was seen “forced into the vehicle against her will by …
Chicago police are looking for two males they say opened fire on a 70-year-old woman sitting in her car early Monday morning, killing her. WLS said that Yvonne Ruzich was in her car talking with her stepson in another car, something she often did before reporting to work at Baltimore Food & Liquor Store in …
A 31-year-old California man stands accused of intentionally causing a wrong-way crash on the 101 Freeway earlier this month, leaving his girlfriend dead and their four children injured. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Cesar Iban Torres has been charged with one count of murder for the death of 26-year-old Aimee Garcia and …
An Ohio woman was arrested over the weekend after she allegedly cut off a woman in traffic, pulled her out of her car, and beat her with a hammer. The victim’s 5-year-old twins were in the back seat when Jamela Chatman, 27, forced her to stop her car, WKBN reported. Chatman reportedly took the woman’s …
Authorities investigating a body found at an Oklahoma City apartment complex say it may be than of a 17-year-old girl who disappeared after a July 4 party. Eduardo Bonilla-Lopez, 18, was arrested last month and charged with the kidnapping and murder of Haylie Gonzalez after he allegedly showed her bleeding from a gunshot wound to …
A young mother in Mobile, Alabama, has been charged with murder in the death of her 3-year-old son. Officers responded to USA Children and Women’s Hospital on August 8 when hospital staff alerted them to a possible case of child abuse, Fox 10 reported. The toddler had been brought to the hospital by Mobile Fire …
Pennsylvania investigators are looking for a Dallastown woman they say disappeared under “suspicious circumstances.” Sara Loricchio was last seen on Thursday at about 10 a.m., York Area Regional Police reported. She was reported missing at noon on Sunday. Police did not describe the “suspicious circumstances.” Loricchio is about 5 feet 8 inches tall, 120 pounds, …
A Texas man told police he had engaged in “inappropriate sexual contact of his daughter” for a considerable length of time, both in the San Antonio suburb of Live Oak and in the state of Washington, where they lived before moving to Texas. Live Oak police were tipped to the possible abuse by the victim’s …
Police say they plan to charge Demarcus Brinkley with the kidnapping and murder of Atlanta bartender Mariam Abdulrab early Friday morning. Abdulrab, 27, was found shot to death just a few miles from her home after neighbors reported seeing her forced into a vehicle at gunpoint at around 5 a.m. She had just returned home …
